Archive - The Corona Trial

LAWYER Alan F. Paguia, former professor of Law at the Ateneo Law School cites why Senate jurisdiction over the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato C. Corona is legally impossible.

By JOEL BUTUYAN, Roque & Butuyan Law Offices
I FINALLY had time to sit down and write the percolating thoughts in my mind as I read and watch the impeachment drama. This debate has brought our nation at a crossroads. Which of the two roads should our nation take? The road to impeachment or the road where every person you meet is karaoke-singing the song “Let It Be.”

FULL text of the House prosecutors' reply to Chief Justice Renato Corona's answer to the impeachment complaint transmitted by the House of Representatives to the Senate.

FULL text of Chief Justice Renato Corona's answer to the impeachment complaint transmitted by the House of Representatives to the Senate.

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
Expect Senator Antonio F. Trillanes IV to call a spade a spade. In his speech at a forum held at the UP National College of Public Administration and Governance, Diliman last week, Trillanes said, “… the over-arching policy issue in this whole impeachment episode is, whether the conviction or acquittal of Chief Justice Renato Corona would be good for our country.”

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
I THINK President Aquino will have the numbers to convict Supreme Court Justice Renato Corona regardless of whether the prosecution will be able to support the charges they enumerated in the impeachment complaint.

JUSTICE Secretary Leila de Lima's statement reacting to Chief Justice Renato Corona's speech calling President Aquino a dictator.

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
CHIEF Justice Renato Corona has nixed calls for him to just resign and spare the country from an emotional and divisive exercise. He has, in fact, decided to fight back warning of a creeping dictatorship by President Aquino.

CHIEF Justice Renato C. Corona’s Dec. 14 speech to Supreme Court employees at the Supreme Court compound where he branded President Aquino as a dictator and called himself the defender of justice.

PRESIDENT Aquino’s speech at the Dec. 13 Administration Coalition Caucus held at the EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, Mandaluyong City.

THE verified complaint containing the eight articles of impeachment that the House of Representatives transmitted to the Senate after impeaching Chief Justice Renato C. Corona on Dec. 12. A total of 188 out of the 285-member House signed the complaint charging Corona with culplable violation of the Constitution, betrayal of public trust and graft and corruption.

CHIEF Justice Renato C. Corona’s Dec. 12 speech before Supreme Court Justices and court officials and employees during the flag raising ceremonies at the Supreme Court grounds, in response to the surreptitious “Oust the CJ Plot.”

THE Dec. 5 speech of President Aquino at the 1st National Criminal Justice Summit where he slammed Chief Justice Renato Corona